Newsom is biting off more than he can chew. He’s taking on the richest man in the world.
And now Gavin Newsom just trashed Elon Musk for one ridiculous reason.
Newsom’s Desperate Swipe at Musk: Sour Grapes from a Failing Governor
California Governor Gavin Newsom, the poster boy for progressive overreach and blue-state dysfunction, took another cheap shot at Elon Musk during a recent Axios interview, dismissing the visionary entrepreneur with a petty five-word insult: “one of the great disappointments.”
Blaming Musk for His Own Regulatory Mess
Newsom whined that Musk is somehow handing the electric vehicle market to China on a silver platter, claiming the Tesla founder is “going to allow… one of the most significant own goals in the next decade [which] is ceding the EV space to China.”
He griped that China now dominates 70% of the global EV market and is “flooding the zone all around the globe,” while fretting over the fate of “American legacy automobile manufacturers.”
In typical Newsom fashion, he tried to take credit for Musk’s success, boasting that “It was regulation in California that created the conditions that allowed him to take the risk to become the multibillionaire, maybe trillionaire, that he’s become.”
He even admitted to being an early Tesla adopter and once hailing Musk as the “Edison of our time”—before pivoting to slam the innovator for shifting focus toward robotics and humanoids instead of endlessly bowing to green mandates.
This attack lands especially flat as Newsom’s own policies have turned California into a cautionary tale of high taxes, crushing regulations, rampant homelessness, and businesses fleeing the state in droves—including Musk himself relocating key operations to freer climates like Texas.
Hypocrisy on Full Display as EV Sales Tank
Newsom’s tirade comes amid a sharp 26.8% drop in new EV sales nationwide following the Trump administration’s sensible decision to axe the $7,500 federal EV tax credit—a subsidy taxpayers can no longer afford to prop up an industry struggling under heavy-handed government interference.
Yet the governor remains stubbornly committed to his extreme anti-car, pro-mandate agenda, even floating the idea of reinstating similar handouts in California.
While Musk continues pushing the boundaries of innovation across EVs, space, AI, and beyond—often despite regulatory hurdles—Newsom’s California experiment keeps delivering higher costs, lower freedoms, and diminishing results for everyday residents.
In the end, Newsom’s bitter “disappointment” jab reveals far more about the governor’s fading relevance and inability to deliver results than it does about Musk.
As one of the most prominent faces of Democratic governance, Newsom’s latest outburst only underscores why Americans are increasingly rejecting the failed big-government model he embodies.
